What is Motivation Exactly?

Motivation is influenced by satisfying needs necessary for sustaining life or well-being and growth. Physiological needs for food, water, and sex (yes, sex) serve the organism to maintain life and provide satisfaction.

What Makes People Indecisive?

Do you ever find yourself needlessly obsessing over an important decision or avoiding making that decision altogether by any means? You have a few (often equally attractive) options, but you obsess over only a handful?

What is Your Emotional Intelligence of Others?

ADVANTAGES OF HIGH-LEVEL EMOTIONAL AWARENESS OF OTHERS

You will have more chances to respond appropriately to others when you know how they feel.

You will be better able to read the play in a meeting, negotiation, or discussion and thus have the option to respond in a meaningful and influential way.

Saving Yourself From Yourself

Admittedly, the various paths described below for achieving optimal mental and emotional health aren’t that simple. They involve a significant amount of time and effort. Plus, transforming deeply rooted internal programming is hardly for the timid, for most of your maladaptive, outdated mechanisms of survival were formulated back in childhood. And as uninformed or unsophisticated as these self-protective programs are, they can yet be highly resistant to change. After all, by the time you reached adulthood, they’d become firmly entrenched—seemingly almost intrinsic to who you are.

Securing Financing

You Are About To Enter The War Zone. Be Prepared For Pain.

Unless you’ve been ordained as the hottest up-and-coming unicorn in Silicon Valley, nothing about fundraising is easy. It’s filled with painful no’s: No’s that take your breath away in how quickly and rudely they’re delivered; no’s that are tied up in pretty little ribbons and disguised as “let’s keep in touch”; no’s that come in the form of deafening silence after a series of promising meetings. Especially in the beginning, each one of those no’s will weigh on you heavier than you ever could have imagined.

Kind Narcissists, Camouflaged Selfishness

Narcissists usually employ kindness and generosity when you first meet them. They trick you into gaining your trust. However, eventually, they reveal their true identity.

Kind narcissists are hard to identify. That’s because you don’t see them coming.

High Performance Careers

Isn’t it about time your talent, passion, commitment, and drive translated into a high performance careers recognition, fulfillment and satisfaction? Because you’re excellent at what you do. You work hard. You do a great job. You’re committed. And you get results. To everyone else, your career looks just fine. But you know something’s missing. You’re […]

Give Yourself Credit: The Essential Habit Behind Self-Esteem

Give yourself credit. Are you appreciating your small wins? Here’s why it’s important to find those daily “+1’s” to build confidence and self-esteem. We often don’t give ourselves enough credit in life – and this can ultimately lead to low self-esteem and confidence. Too much of self-reflection is often focused on the things we want […]

Key Differences Between Assertive Communication and Aggressive Communication

Communication difficulties difficulties are probably the number one cause of conflict, breakdown of relationships, and resulting stress. Unfortunately, assertive communication skills are most often taught through observation and without proper examples unhealthy communication skills are passed down. There are a variety of types of communication, some more effective than others. Poor or ineffective communication communication […]

Making Decisions with Self-Confidence

How to achieve what you set out to achieve. In addition to being realistic and action oriented, decisive people tend to have self-confidence. High self-esteem gives them a positive view of themselves for making decisions with Self-Confidence and their sense of self-efficacy gives them a belief that they can achieve what they set out to […]